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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.

Feel free to ask for help, share your generators, and start friendly discussions at your leisure :)

This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.

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I find the update to image generator sadly quite horrendous. The quality in aesthetics in all kind of different styles has dropped imensly. Faces often look totally weird. Their is no comparisson between the former and the new one in quality. Before it had this certain magical style that made it stand out. The aesthetics were brilliant. In some sense it was almost like an underground midjourney alternative. This is now gone. Maybe the new one can do text a little better. But you can use any other engine for that. The unique perchance style you don't get anywhere else. Please change it back! Or maybe offer both. But from an artistic point of view this is a catastrophy right now.

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[–] Almaumbria@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that politely reporting an issue is not the same as "this is horrendous, shocking, depressing, a catastrophe" et cetera. There's a fine line between giving feedback and plain old venting :)

Come on. Dev reads what we write here. And the exact same reaction and request has been seen and made before, right after an update -- if it was feasible to "offer both" I think we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place. So where does that leave us, exactly?

Its not about the prompts.

Well, I was able to very closely reproduce the aesthetics I wanted for thirty-one custom styles, so if you forgive me, I will take your assertion with a pinch of salt. I've run into minor issues here and there too, but the situation is pretty far from unworkable. And despite these problems, I'm still getting higher quality than before, and more consistently to boot.

So I dunno. But I can provide you some examples of things that currently work really well, if you like.

[–] anonfox421@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The biggest issue that I've found with the shorter prompts is where you're trying to describe a number of specific things (for example, if you're trying to describe two or three specific characters, define hair colors with highlights, eye colors, skin colors, body shape/type, where the characters are in relation to each other, what they're doing, where they are in terms of a scene, what the atmosphere/time of day is, some objects in the scene, lighting, and so on in addition to the art style of the image) then you quickly run out of words before you hit the limit where things get hit and dropped off.